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NEWENGLAND FARMER, 



OCTOBER 13,183ft. 



SHSgsii'.s.Si^sa'S'. 



(From the Soulhern Literary Messenger.) 

 THE OLD MAN'S CAROUSAL. 



EV JAMES K. rAULDING. 



Drink, drink, whom stiall we drink ? 

 A friend or a mistress ? Come let mo think. 

 To those who are absent, or those who are here ' 

 To the dead that we lov'd, or the living still dear.' 

 Alas, when I look, I find none of the last. 

 The present isbarrcn, let's drink to the past. 



Come, here's to the girl with the voice sweet and low. 

 The eye all of fire and the bosom of snow. 

 Who erewhile in the days of my youth that are fled, 

 Once slept on my bosom and pillow'd my head ; 

 Would you know where to find such a delicate prize, 

 Go seek in yon chuich-yard, fur there she lies. 



And here's the friend, the one friend of my youth, 

 With a lif^ad full of genius, a heart full of truth. 

 Who travell'd with me in the sunshine of life. 

 And stuck to my side in its sorrow and strife. 

 Would you know where to find a blessing so rare .= 

 Go drag the lone sea, you may find him there. 



And here's to a brace of twin cherubs of mine. 

 With hearts like their mother's, as pure as this wine. 

 Who came but to see the first act of the play. 

 Grew tired of the scene, and so both went away. 

 Would you kuow where this brace of bright cherubs 



have hied 1 

 Go seek them in heaven, for there they abide. 



A bumper, my boys, to a gray-headed pair. 



Who watched o'er my childhood with tenderestcare, 



God bless them and keep them, and may they look 



down. 

 On the head of their sun, without tear, sigh or frown ; 

 Would you know whom I drink to — go seek midst 



the dead. 

 You will find both their names on the gtohe at their 



head. 



And here's — but alas, the good wine is no more. 

 The bottle is emptied of all its bright store, 

 Like those who have toasted, its spirt is fled, 

 And nothing is left of the light that it shed. 

 Then a bumper of tears, boys, the banquet here ends. 

 With a health to our dead, since we've no living 

 friends. 



land, was an apprentice to a shoemaker, aiul nf- 

 terwarfls u cabin boy. 



Bishop Piideati.x worked in tlie kitchen at Ex- 

 eter College, O.xt'ord. 



Carilinal Wolscy, son of a butcher, 

 Ferguson was a s-hepherd. 

 Neiluilir was a peasant. 



Dean Tucker, was the son of a small farmer in 

 Cardiganshire, and performed his journeys to Ox- 

 ford on foot. 



Edmund Halley was the son of a soap-boiler at 

 Shoreditch. 



Joseph Hall, bishop of Norwich, son of a far- 

 mer at Ashhy de la Zonch. 



William Hogarth was put apiirentice to an en- 

 graver of pewter pots. 



Doctor Mountain, Bishop of Durham, was the 

 son of a beggar. 



Lucian was the son of a statuary. 

 Virgil of a porter. 

 Horace of a sliop keeper. 

 Plautus, a baker. 



Shukspeare, the son of a woolstapler. 

 Milton of a money scrivener. 

 Cowley, son of a hatter. 

 Mallet rose from poverty. 

 Po|)e, the son of a merchant. 

 Gay was apprentice to a silk mercer. 

 Doctor Samuel Johnson was a sou of a book- 

 seller at Litchfield. 



Akenside, sow of a butcher at Newcastle. 

 Collins, son of a hatter. 

 Samuel Butler, son of a farmer. 

 Ben Johnson worked for some time as a brick- 

 layer. 



Robert Burns was a ploughman in Ayrshire. 



KURSERY OP WIi.LJAM KEBfRICK. 



Origin of Ge.mos. — Columbus was the son of 

 a weaver, and a weaver himself, 



Rabelais son of an apothecary. 



Claude Loiraine was bred a pastry cook. 



Moliere, son of a tapestry maker. 



Cervantes served as a common soldier. 



Homer was a beggar. 



Hesiod was the son of a small farmer. 



Demosthenes, of a cutler. 



Terence was a slave. 



Richardson was a printer. 



Oliver Cromwell the son of a brewer. 



Howard an apprentice to a grocer. 



Benjamin Franklin, a journeyman printer. 



Doctor Thomas, Bishop of Worcester, son of a 

 linen-draper. 



Daniel Defoe was a hosier, and the son of a 

 butcher. 



Whitfield, son of an innkeeper at Gloncester. 



Sir Cloudesley Shovel, rear-admiral of Eng- 



Nonantum Hill in Newtm, 5\ miles from Boston by the West- 

 ern Avenue J and near the great Weslet-n Rail Road. 



This establishment, which now comprises 25 acres, includes 

 the selections of the tinest kinils of new Flemish Pears, and 

 of all other hardy fruits — selections from llie first rate sources 

 and the finest varieties known. 



75,000 Hlorus fliullicaulis, or true Chinese Mulberry Trees, 

 can now be supplied, wholesale or retail. 



Ornamental trees, shrubs and roses. Also Herbaceous 

 flowering plants of the most heantifui varieties. 



Address by mail, post paid, lo U'lLLi \M Kenrick, New- 

 ton, Mass. Trees and plants when ordered, are carefully 

 selected, and labelled, and failhft.lly parked, and duly for- 

 worded from Boston hy land or sea. Transportation gratis 

 to the cily. Catalogues will be sent to all who apply. 



Sept. 21. 8m 



Value OF Time. — If persons were generally 

 aware of the great value of time, we should have 

 less idleness among us — and consequently less 



misery for hardly anything can more conduce 



to unhappiness than want of employment — knnui 

 is the worst of miseries. If the value of time was 

 •rreatly appreciated, the whole race of bores, who 

 seem to derive all their enjoyment from inter- 

 rupting the pursuits of more industrious individu- 

 als themselves, would be extinct. A foreign pe- 

 riodictd contains the following paragraph on this 

 subject. 



" Lord Brougham, the most indefatigable man 

 in England, often does not quit his study before 

 midnight, and he is always up at four. Dr. Cot- 

 ton Mather, who knew the value of time in every- 

 thiu"-, was never willing to lose a moment of it. 

 To effect this purpose, he had written upon the 

 door of his study in large letters, "Be Brief." 

 Ursinos, a professor in the University of Heidel- 

 bcro-, wishing to prevent the idlers and babblers 

 from interrupting him in his hours of study, had 

 written at the entrance of his library, 'Friend, 

 whoever you may be, whoever enters here, be 

 quick with your business or go away.' The learn- 

 ed Scaliger, placed the following phrase upon the 

 door of his cabinet :— ' My time is my estate." 

 The favorite ma.\im of Shakspeare was, ' Consid- 

 er time too i)recious to be spent in gossipping.' — 

 'Friends are the real robbers of time,' said Lord 

 Byron. An old attorney at Chatelet was accus- 

 tomed to get rid of such of his clients as were 

 importunate, or he had little to hope from, by 

 these words : — My good frtends, time lost goes 

 for nothing. 



GREEN HOUSE GLASS 



Of everv size and thickness, for sale hy 



LORI.\G &. KUl'FKU. No. 10 Merchants Row. 

 Boston, Sept. 7. 2mis. 



SUPERB nUTCH BULBS, 



Just received from Holland, at the New England Seed 

 Siore, a fine assortment o( Bulbs obtauicd from a responsible 

 and celebrated gaiden near Rotterdam ; consisting in part of 

 the following kinds of IJyacinths. 



La Heroine, double yellow with rosy eye, (superior); 

 Grande Videtie, single blue; Commandant, double blat k ; 

 Congress of Amerira, do ble red j Cronl Voorsl ; Boquel 

 Tendrc ; Grande IVIonarche de Fiance, single white ; Vol- 

 taire; Louis d' Or, double yellow, &c. Hyacinths, mixed 

 colors, without names, by the dozen or hundred. Duuhle and 

 Single Sweet Scented Jonquills ; Polyanliius Narcissus, of 

 various sorts; Crocus, by tti- dozen or hundred; Double 

 Kanunculus, mixed sorts; Double Anemones, mixed sorts; 

 English Iris ; Persian liis ; Maltagnon Lilies ; Crown Impe- 

 rials ; Amaryllis Formosissma ; Amaryllis, of ten different 

 varieties, some very splendid ; Gradiolus Cardinalis; Mexi- 

 can Tiger Flower; f uberoses ; (.'yclamcns; Fritalarias, and 

 Tulips, double and single, of every variety. 



The above lot of bulbs is worlliy Che attention of amateurs. 

 They were all selected with the nicest care, expressly for our 

 eslaiilisluTien., and are undoubtcillv the best lot ever imported. 



Sept. 'JI. JOStPH BUECK & CO. 



THE NEW ENGLAND FARHIER 



Is published every Wednesday Evening, at .f 3 per arnium, 

 payable at the end of the year — but those who pay within 

 six'lv days from ihe time of subscribing, are euliiled to a de- 

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03' No paper will be sent to a distance wilhoul payment 

 being made in advance. 



AGENTS. 



AVw York — G C. Thokuubn, 11 John-street. 

 yj/A„„„_WM.THOREtJRN,347 .Markei-sticel. 

 PliUadeivhia—D. i/- C. LANUBETH,!i5 Chesuul-streel. 

 Ballimwc — I'ubh.slier of American Farniei. 

 Cincinnati— S.C. Parrhukst, 23 Lower Market-street. 

 Flushing, N. Y. — Wm. Prince ff Sons, Prop. Lin. Bol.Gar. 

 Middlelniry, Vt. — WiGHT Chapman, merchant. 

 West Bradford, Mass.— Um.^ &. Co. l!o..ksellers. 

 Taunton, il/nss.— Sam'l O. Dunbab, Bookseller. 

 Hart/ord—Goowvi \K if Co. Booksellers. 

 Pieicl'unjport — EnENEZER Steuma.v, Bookseller. 

 Portsmouth, N. W.— John W. Foster, Boi ^seller. 

 H'oo(/i<oc*, V(.— J.A. Pratt. 

 Bdwor, Me.—Wn. Ma-nn, Druggist. 

 HaliJaj.N. ,S.— E. Brown, Esq. 

 St. Louis— Gilo. Hoi.ton, and WiiEis &. Stevens. 



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